Message #167280

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Pop Quiz!

1.According to the International System of Units, what’s the official base unit for measuring electrical current? (Examples: meter measures length, second measures time.)
2.What 1970s science fiction film recounts electrical engineer Roy Neary’s long, strange trip to Wyoming…and beyond?
3. In 1844, Washington DC and Baltimore became the first American cities connected by what method of communication?
3. What Austrian-born electrical engineer, who patented a form of spread-spectrum still used in wireless communications, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
5. German physicist Heinrich Hertz discovered and experimented with what form of electromagnetic radiation?
6. What device did Harold P. Brown invent in the late 1880s to help Thomas Edison publicize the dangers of alternating current?
7. The US Supreme Court upheld the radio-related patents of what inventor in June 1943, five months after he died?
8. After 1941, “radio direction finding� became known by what more popular acronym?
9. After the transistor was invented in 1947, it replaced what device in most electronic equipment?
10. Before inventing the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog sold kits for building what other electronic musical instrument?


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1.ampere (or amp)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. telegraph
4. Hedy Lamarr
5. radio waves
6. electric chair
7. Nikola Tesla
8. radar
9. vacuum tube (a.k.a. thermionic valve; also accepted “tubes�)
10. theremin
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